British royal family news reveals that Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, wasn’t cooperative with the legal team of The Sun’s publisher, who he is suing.
Harry was so uncooperative that he had to be forced to give access to his emails as potential evidence in the case.
According to MSN, the High Court heard that Harry was making things difficult for News Group Newspapers (NGN) to find material for his case about illegal information gathering.
On Thursday, the publisher’s lawyer expressed concern over Harry allegedly deleting emails between him and his memoir ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer. They worry that Harry purposely deleted important information.
It’s claimed that Harry’s conversations on Signal with Moehringer were deleted before the release of his book, “Spare.” This means that a lot of relevant documents may have been deleted during the case.
On the other hand, Harry’s legal team argued that NGN wrongly portrayed his actions about disclosing material. They accused the publisher of going on an unnecessary search for information.
Harry is among several people suing the publisher, accusing them of using journalists and private investigators to target claimants. The publisher denies any illegal activity by The Sun. During Thursday’s hearing in London, NGN’s lawyers asked the judge to order Harry’s legal team to search his texts, WhatsApp and Signal messages, laptop, and hard drives.
They also want Harry’s legal team to contact his former lawyers at Harbottle & Lewis, Sir Clive Alderton, the King’s private secretary, and Sir Michael Stevens, the keeper of the privy purse, for documents concerning the duke.
In other words, NGN wants Harry to hand over information that could show when he knew he could sue the publisher and whether his claim in September 2019 was within the legal time limit.
The judge, Justice Fancourt, was told that nearly 12,000 of Harry’s emails from his now-closed email account were being reviewed for potential disclosure. But the access wasn’t easily obtained, with the NGN lawyer saying, “We’ve had to drag those out of the claimant kicking and screaming. He doesn’t want to have to do this for whatever reason.”
